Daft and untrustworthy advice about coronavirus

[Pickman's model]

Share your unsubstantiated gossip and unfounded folk cures here

 

[editor]

Most of Facebook really. An endless torrent of made up crap, loon theories and bonkers cures, repeatedly reposted and shared. Quite a few friends have quit FB altogether as a result.

Times like this make me realise how fucking brilliant this site can be.

 

[SpookyFrank]

All the usual hogwash has just been repurposed for coronavirus. Colloidal silver, dubious supplements, yogic rituals, detoxing etc. Doubtless any vaccine that's developed will be accused of causing haemorrhoids, tuberculosis and alien abductions before it has even been tested on living matter.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Elsewhere facbook is a roughly 50:50 split between people mad at the government for not closing schools or businesses and people who are convinced that no closures are necessary. Can't help noticing a pretty clear trend whereby people with salaries and/or their own homes are in the former camp, while self-employed or hourly workers who rent their homes are in the latter.

 

[JimW]

As you can imagine, theres been a field day for Chinese medicine woo here. Did admire the folks who declared grain spirits prophylactic and began getting pissed from the off.

 

[Pickman's model]

As you can imagine, theres been a field day for Chinese medicine woo here. Did admire the folks who declared grain spirits prophylactic and began getting pissed from the off.

Sven Hassel describes Josef Porta as believing vodka an alternative for vitamin c, and there's something in that I think.

 

[gentlegreen]

There has been apparently genuine Indian government info recommending homoeopathy ....

 

[StoneRoad]

Quite a bit of dubious advice about eating raw garlic.

Coronavirus: The fake health advice you should ignore

Garlic and taking hot baths are among the dodgy health advice for treating coronavirus being shared online.

www.bbc.co.uk

IMO - whilst the honk it gives your breath might work as social distancing and garlic does have some minor health benefits it ain't gonna cure covid-19.

 

[editor]

As you can imagine, theres been a field day for Chinese medicine woo here. Did admire the folks who declared grain spirits prophylactic and began getting pissed from the off.

Dr Jazzz must be brewing up some Extra Smart Water right now.

 

[editor]

ALIENS!

Could the First US 'Unknown' Coronavirus Case Have Originated From Outer Space?

A scientist claim that the coronavirus came from outer space. Were the aliens really responsible for it?

www.techtimes.com

 

[CNT36]

Most of Facebook really. An endless torrent of made up crap, loon theories and bonkers cures, repeatedly reposted and shared. Quite a few friends have quit FB altogether as a result.

Times like this make me realise how fucking brilliant this site can be.

So glad I left that cesspit a few weeks ago

 

[two sheds]

Most of Facebook really. An endless torrent of made up crap, loon theories and bonkers cures, repeatedly reposted and shared. Quite a few friends have quit FB altogether as a result.

Times like this make me realise how fucking brilliant this site can be.

Amazing the cumulative results of good moderating decisions eh what

 

[Smangus]

Share your unsubstantiated gossip and unfounded folk cures here

Wheres that Boris fellah? He'd be most informative on this.

 

[A380]

See, my sisters husbands, brothers hairdresser is married to a copper and he said that what it is yeah is that some CIA bloke in China got bit of a bat in Mulan and that was the start. Then the Mossad and Jeremy Corbyn made sure it came here so that Trump can win next May. And you know those pictures of Italy? All fakes. They are just pretending cos Barnier is angry Borris got Brexit done. And if you put a two pence piece under your tongue it neutralises the virus.

 

[gosub]

Actually an idea of mine which I'm not sure about so will put here for review rather than be irresponsible

1) Anti bacterial no good on viruses and the alcohol based stuff sold out effectively

2) Getting told 20 secs washing with soap effectve as breaks down lipid layer on surface of virus


logically therefore aren't the degreasing type cleaners that are still on the supermarket shelves more effective on viruses than the anti bacterial ones that are flying off the shelves?

 

[Sprocket.]

Sven Hassel describes Josef Porta as believing vodka an alternative for vitamin c, and there's something in that I think.

Was that poured over melon balls ?

 

[Mation]

ALIENS!

Could the First US 'Unknown' Coronavirus Case Have Originated From Outer Space?

A scientist claim that the coronavirus came from outer space. Were the aliens really responsible for it?

www.techtimes.com

Ailing hens.

Covid-19 impact: Buyers chicken out; demand drops 60%

Farmers are resorting to panic sales even as they seek government assistance as the Covid-19 crisis is more widespread than the bird flu outbreak of 2006, which was restricted to western parts of the country.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Was that poured over melon balls ?

No, just drunk straight from the bottle

 

[andysays]

Apparently some insane bastards are even suggesting we should just allow it to run rampant through the population so that those of us who survive have some sort of 'herd immunity'.

In comparison to that, some of the stuff on this thread seems almost sensible.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Sven Hassel describes Josef Porta as believing vodka an alternative for vitamin c, and there's something in that I think.

porta had no teeth iirc

 

[not-bono-ever]

* vinegar*

 

[Pickman's model]

porta had no teeth iirc

I think he had a couple

 

[MickiQ]

One of Mrs Q's Aunt's found Jesus (didn't even know he was missing myself) a few years back and keeps posting religious garbage on FB about all this, though to be fair she posts religious garbage about everything not just COV-19, Apparently they are trying to get a million people together to pray for a cure.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Apparently they are trying to get a million people together to pray for a cure.

What could go wrong

 

[MickiQ]

What could go wrong

I don't think the plan is for them to all be in one place (though I could be wrong it doesn't seem a very well thought out plan) but for them all to pray at the same time, so the noise gets on God's nerves, interrupts his afternoon nap that sort of thing.

 

[dessiato]

I read on a coronavirus myths post on the BBC that some say eating garlic is good. They reported a Chinese woman had been hospitalised after eating 1.5kg of it.

 

[Marty1]

A good torrential downpour for a prolonged amount of time may act as a natural scrubber to remove the virus from the atmosphere....

 

[Serge Forward]

Apparently some insane bastards are even suggesting we should just allow it to run rampant through the population so that those of us who survive have some sort of 'herd immunity'.

In comparison to that, some of the stuff on this thread seems almost sensible.

That does appear to be the Johnson government's plan.

 

[gosub]

Actually an idea of mine which I'm not sure about so will put here for review rather than be irresponsible

1) Anti bacterial no good on viruses and the alcohol based stuff sold out effectively

2) Getting told 20 secs washing with soap effectve as breaks down lipid layer on surface of virus


logically therefore aren't the degreasing type cleaners that are still on the supermarket shelves more effective on viruses than the anti bacterial ones that are flying off the shelves?

I'm right

 

[Sprocket.]

I think he had a couple

He had a bag full of gold ones!